Nomination of James B. Wyngaarden To Be Director of the National Institutes of Health

Nomination of James B. Wyngaarden To Be Director of the National Institutes of Health

February 19, 1982
The President today announced his intention to nominate James B. Wyngaarden to be Director of
the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. He would succeed
Donald Sharp Fredrickson.

Since 1967 Dr. Wyngaarden has been professor and chairman, department of medicine, Duke
University School of Medicine, in Durham, N.C. He was professor and chairman, department of
medicine, and professor of biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, in
Philadelphia, Pa., in 1965 - 67. He also served as a consultant to the Philadelphia Veterans
Administration hospital during that same time period. He has held other positions with Duke
University, George Washington University, National Institutes of Health, and Massachusetts
General Hospital.

Dr. Wyngaarden attended Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. (1942 - 43), Western Michigan
University (1943 - 44), and the University of Michigan Medical School (1944 - 48). He is a
member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of
Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.

He has five children and resides in Durham, N.C. He was born October 19, 1924, in East Grand
Rapids, Mich.